Hi.

Just a tough about ghosts and babies.
I read that babies are able to see ghosts and even talk to it.

Do you have any experience with that ?

Barb

When i was 2 i was really ill with Chicken pox i nearly died. And one night i was alone upstairs in my cot fast asleep....Anyway my dad came to check up on my and he could smell cigar smoke really strongly so he asked my mum if she has had anyone in that smoke and she said no but she the smell is really familiar as it smelt like my great Grandad he died a on fathers day when i was 1 and ever since growing up i've always said to my mum i see my great grandad all the time and i can always smell him.

Mum said he dawted on me from the mo i was born.

Hope this kinda helps.

Yes they do. My daughter at 16-18 months saw my brother who past at the babysitters.

Interesting topic Barb!
I cannot answer to that,but instead i can add a question: So if babies can really see ghosts,or interact with them,or at least maybe hmm sense them a lot better than grown ups,what gives them this "privilege"? What do babies have that can make them see or even understand ghosts,is it some other sense that we have when we are born n we're not really aware of it yet to explain it scientifically,that makes us able to contact the spirit world better during the very early stages of our lives?

I ask that because I have a son. He's a newborn now but I think he sometimes see 'things'. His eyes seems to watch something in the air. He watchs and laughs at nothing, so I think he can see maybe ghosts

In my life I saw various times shadow people, maybe my son too can see it ?!

Barb

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[quote=Barb,Jul 28 2005, 02:37 PM]
Hi.

Just a tough about ghosts and babies.
I read that babies are able to see ghosts and even talk to it.

Do you have any experience with that ?

Barb



I have seen spirits all my life.

I had woken up early in the morning, The sun was up, everyone was still asleep.
I walked from the 3rd floor, where our bedrooms were, down to the second floor. As I entered the livingroom, I saw a woman standing just on the otherside of the archway in the dinningroom, she smiled at me, walked over to the corner wall, that was an outside wall.

I walked into the dinningroom to the corner & she was gone. I walked to the window, thinking she might of went out the window, (I was only about 3-4 yrs old at that time).

When my Mom awoke, I told her about the woman. She at first said, you were half asleep & we tend to see things. I told her her I saw the woman & gave her the description

The people my parents brought the house from lived right behind us. My Mom was talking to them, told them about my experience. It turned out, the first wife died in the house & I described her to a tee. If was her.
After all these years, I still remember that as if it happened yesterday. That my experience became my awareness, that, not everyone I saw & talked to was physical.

Nice story...I think that because babies havn't been moulded yet they accept everything they see and therefore can see spirits alot easier than an older person would be able to.

I believe all humans have the ability to see ghosts…regardless of their age.

Yeah, but its easier for babies because they are not restricted by believing that they cannot

This is often what I have seen from most my experiences. My friends all have kids.... i have witnessed my brother when he was younger, flip out over people that were not there. You know how kids shy away from strangers and grab at parents leg. Well once, my friends kid feaked out and would not stop looking at a certain direction, when we got in his line of sight, block whatever he was looking at, he just seemed to overlook us, but the fear in his eyes were of something his parents could even scare him to with a belt. He would not even walk in the direction. So, yes, I believe kids are more sensitive. I believe this is so because of their lack of skepticism. Kids can easily be manipulated, and very gullible, not knowing right from wrong.

my family has had allot of stuff happen my cousin has seen my grama after my grandma died she whould see her and it creeped me out

Yes babies see ghosts. Children under the age of 2 are very "tuned in" to the Spirit world. At about age 2 the largest fontonelle (soft spot ) closes and most children lose the ability to see Spirit at that time.

That's in interesting theory.

I forgot to mention in my last post that the large fontonelle (soft spot) is the 7th Chakra and the smaller one is the 6th Chakra. Apparently when the soft spots close our ablility to interact with Spirit is reduced.

I don't know about babies, but I have a grandson who says he sees and talks to dead people. On one occasion, one morning he told his mother that one he had talked to told him that his grandmother's cat, Blue, had died during the previous night. (Actually, what he said was, "Mom, Meme's cat Blue died last night." She asked him why he thought this, and he replied, "A dead person told me in the night.") His grandmother lived some 600 miles away, and neither of my daughters had spoken with her recently, and there had previously been no indication that her cat was in any threat of dying. His mother (who doesn't make any fuss when he tells her these things) just nodded OK, and went on about her business. That afternoon, his grandmother called, and said that her cat, Blue, had died the previous night.

Actually children 5 and under can see ghosts easier than adults. It is believed that this is because it is around that age that we start learning from society that ghosts are just make believe. I don't understand how the closing of the soft spot would effect wether or not they can see ghosts, can you elaborate? And if that is the case then why do so may adults see them?

Some children retain the ability to see spirit and this continues in to adulthood. The 7th and 6th Chakras are associated with the soft spots. The 5th, 6th and 7th Chakras are the Spiritual Chakras. Some people have their 7th and 6th Chakras more open than others and therefore can interact more easily with Spirit . The openness (or lack thereof) of the Chakras is related to the spiritual lessons that each person needs to learn. Up until the age of 2 the Soul is believed to come and go out of the body more or less at will. At around the age of 2 the soul incorporates more into the physical form and this coincides with the closing of the soft spots. The Soul can still leave but not nearly as frequently because it must now focus on the lessons it needs to learn while on the earth plane.
Alot of adults see spirits and alot do not, therefore the continuing debate on the "reality" of ghosts.

Thank you for explaining that to me. But please do not take it personally when I say that I just can't get into all that way of thinking. I really don't even like the word "soul" and I really can't get myself to believe that it comes and goes through a soft spot in my scalp. Anyway, thankyou again for taking the time to enlighten me to your point of view.

No offence taken. It is very healthy to "Question Authority"! NO ONE has all the answers.

Very true.

Well like 13 years ago my uncle died (someone) killed him, it was horrible
he had or has 3 girls and the youngest one was about a year and a half when it happeend, my "aunt" would tell us that she would point at the pic and say daddy, but she would also point to the sky, sometime passed by and my cousin could talk, she would talk to my uncle and tell him that she wanted to go with him, my aunt would cry very much....

Also my mom says that baby's can see the angels and that's why they smile, 'cause really they can't see until like 3 weeks or so? I think, or is it 3 months?

no they just look at things because if they did, they will cry because whenever someone goes next to them they cry.

Because at that point they haven't had any grown ups telling them that such things don't exist. Completely open, innocent minds.

I don't unerstand, that didn't really make sense.

Lol this phrase is a great one to get ur mind puzzled n dizzy,good job!
(N im not kidding..)

I believe that babies see Angels and then they smile for no reason while looking around. I also believe that little ones dream of a Life(heaven?) before they are born. Babies must see auras around ppl then as they get older, these gifts are forgotten.

i think babies can see from not long after birth, but the vision is very impared, like they can only really see very high contrast objects.

ive heard that babies, because only 9months ago they did not exist in a physical form, are much closer to the spirit world and remain sensitive to anything on another plane.

this of course is dependant on what your opinion is on life, whether you see it as more of a spiritual, or biological reaction. personally i think for a life to develop from a single or small amount of cells is quite incredible

I would have to say that the little ones can see more then what we can see. This happened in July 2004. My daughter was 22 months old. She was Grandpas girl. Well anyway, I take care of my parents and we live with them. My bedroom is on one side the livingroom and my parents are on the other. The night was a normal night. I would rock my daughter to sleep and put her to bed. I went into my parents room to say goodnight. I then went to bed it was about midnight. About an hour later my daughter woke screaming and crying. I just thought that it was a night terror, which was normal. I picked her up and she settled down a little. I took her out into the livingroom to rock her again and she totally stopped crying and went back to sleep. I went back into my room and it started all over again, but this time i was sitting on my bed and she looked at the wall and started yelling " NO NO NO" I started feeling funny so I took her back in the livingroom and about 4 am I layed on the couch and went to sleep with her. At & am I woke to my mother yelling. My father went into cardiac arrest. I did CPR and called a ambalince (sp?). He was fine after that. I beleive that my daughter was getting told by something or someone to get me out of the room so i will be able to hear my mother yelling.

Hello everyone,
I stumbled upon this subject because I googled it. Even though I had an idea of what is going on, I had to search the topic and read what other people are experiencing.

Since the time she was starting to mention her first words around 14 months old, the one that impressed me and my wife was " I'm scared" . I'm talking about my baby daughter.

First, we believed she was too young to say what she felt or know what was it that she was feeling and
second she was too young to say or pronounce those words, Who taught her what "scared" means?.

She is 2 years old now, I truly believe some bad spirit is bothering her.
She wakes up yelling totally terrified as if someone is grabing her and trying to pull her away.
This is difficult to accept because I consider myself a believer of God, and of course, if you believe in God, then you have to believe the devil exists.

I always believed none of those things would or could touch me or my family.

Why my daughter?
Last night it happened again she woke up screaming we turned on the lights and she was still terrified, me and my wife prayed asked God to turn away whaever is in our apartment after a moment the baby said: "It's gone", "Daddy, mommy, its not here anymore."
I was totally freaked out too, to think that maybe something was in our room.

She is amazingly smart at her young age and expresses well what she wants, but for some reason when we ask her what is it that she sees, she still cannot tell, she acts like the baby she still is.

I have started to look for another apartment. If I find one, I hope to leave those bad spirits behind.



Your thoughts and prayers are welcomed.

Paranormal (Devil's Advocate) Thoughts: All humans build complicated belief systems in their minds during their lifetime. Perhaps, because babies have not yet developed this, and because the concepts of logic and reason are so foreign to them, they can see such things. For instance: I'm an EXTREMELY logicly and mathematicaly-based person. I need evidence for everything. My mind is wired to be logical and reasoning. I've never ONCE had a supernatural experience, not even something close. Perhaps my spiritual senses are stunted and dulled for this reason.

Mario: Praying is good. Lol, being a Christian, I've got to believe that, if evil spirits exist, God will help us with them. Its been suggested that, should you speak in a very commanding and confident voice, the spirit is compelled to obey. This, of course, doesnt always work. If you're in the spirits "haunting" (most often its place of origin), then telling it to get out of its own house won't work so good. However, if you'll read some of the gospel, you'll find Jesus gave all believers "authority over demons". That isn't an interpretation, its a fact. Jesus says word for word that the Redeemed can cast out demons. So the next time your daughter freaks, I'd suggest mustering up your faith, saying a quick prayer, and saying something like "In the name of Jesus Christ, begone!". Sounds lame, yeah, but it should work. Jesus' name is important. I've studied the Bible in this regard; demons ALWAYS recognize Jesus and they ALWAYS recognize his name. It scares the hell out of them.

I dont know, then why some people can still see ghost's? I dont buy it.
I do belive instead, it has something with words to do, yes word. When we think usually we talk to ourselv, in a wery young age we dont. Children (wery young age) follow their feeling and instinct, they think not with words but with images ex. im hungry, I imagine food.
When we start to replace images with words, we start also loosing thise special abilities. Maybe because we use our brain in another way, a more rational way, less instictive.
That's just a teory....but explain IMO a lot better why babies lose the ability to see ghost 's.
Let's try it out to see if it works, during the day, stop your internal talking, and replace the word with feelings and images. Do it for long time and let's see what happen...

Interesting idea, Lux, but, after a lifetime of thinking in one fashion, it might not be easy to switch.

After giving this some serious consideration, the resident deamon screamer will address this.

Since this is at best, a speculative question that may never bear a true answer, I would hypothesize that yes they do. I believe that as we grwo we "trained" or socialized to believe that the scary things we see in the closet, or under the bed as children really were there when we saw them, or believed we saw them. It is the faith as children that we place in our parents that auses us to no longer see, or experience these phenoms. In some cases i.e. residuals, that it really doesn't matter how we're socialized about them, as they are not really ghosts and hauntings. Rather they are residual emotional resonance, and we're simply experiencing the emotional experiences imprinted in a specific area.
It is simply a matter of belief structures that allow for us to continue experiencing phenoms as we get older, even in the case of those of us who were raise to believe that thos phenoms we experienced as children were not real. It is the strong belief, the faith that these things exist which enable us to lower, or dampen our anti-weird field (another post, another time) or open us to the experience.

For the record: ghosts, I cannot buy.

There MIGHT be something to emotional imprintation, though.

it's hard to say if babies can see ghosts.there no way to document it.a baby would have a free mind,without all the clutter of an adult.also a demon and a ghost are totally different entities and i don't believe a baby could see or feel a demons presence.a baby is too pure.

You don't have to buy anything, I'm not selling anything.

As a skeptical believer myself, I will exhaust all logical, mechanical, structural and reasonable probabilities before even thinking it may be a ghost. If you want to read my theory on Residual hauntings, look it up in the columns section or

Residual Hauntings

Of course I'd be completely willing to debate the possibility of babies being sensitive to demonic activity or presences, It is simply a case of the baby sensing it, of course the can, simply because, as you said, their minds would not be as cluttered. That purity of mind and body s also the baby's defense against those types of forces, the child would have no vices, nor would it know fear which is what these types of forces feed on.

Hi Barb,
When I was younger I didn't have any experiences like I do now, in fact I never had any experiences. But my baby cousin did. Once when my cousin was playing with my aunt, he looked over her shoulder, and started to laugh as if he saw someone making faces at him. My family and I believe that it was my grandpa making faces at him.

Why does everyone feel like I'm trying to start a confrontation when I say stuff like that?

This was a lighthearted statement, meant to make you laugh. As for confrontational? If you want a confrontation you got the wrong guy.

alright then, my bad. I misunderstood. A lot of people seem to be touchy when I'm like "so yeah, i dont believe in all this"

Well, there are a few stories of me in my crib laughing, smiling, and reaching out towards someone/thing. Apparently I talked to this one ghost on the third floor of my parents house for a long time. I have no concrete memory other than one.

I remember at about age 4 or 5 sitting up in my bed and one of the whole shadow deals was sitting on the landing that led up to my bed. I wasn't afraid or anything like that and I don't remember what was discussed, just the sitting there and looking at him.

Apparently I told my mother that he was lonely and would keep me up talking for hours about when he was growing up and when it was his room (house was built in 1810, so there is some plausibility in that).

I tend to trust my mother, but I can't say for sure this is what went down. Just thought I'd add that in.

Marty

no maybe its not easy, but is a try worth.....even only few minutes everyday, u will be surprised

ciao

My husband and I moved into our house in Dec. 2005 when I was pregnant and I was always scared to be alone because I swore I heard voices, doors shutting, and footsteps. To the point where I came out to greet my husband many times but no one was there and I have called my husband home from work to check things out. He thought I was crazy or something until one night a dvd case was open ontop of a stand, the spine of it touching the stand and it started rocking back and forth quite fast. He said there must have been some explaination but we couldn't find one... we couldn't even make the case move like that when we touched it. Since my son was born 4 months ago, I haven't seen or heard hardly anything but I think he has. He's always looking just below the ceiling, just staring. One day I walked into the room where his swing was and he was staring up at the ceiling with a terrified look on his face like he was about to cry and he never so much as blinked or looked toward me when I entered which he always does. I had a really creepy feeling seeing him like that, that it brought tears to my eyes so I picked him up and ran him out of the room. And often when he's in his swing he stares up at the mirror but he's too low to see himself and he'll smile and laugh at it but at my mother's, she has the same mirror on the wall and we can't let him look at it because he bawls his eyes out. He's scared of it. I always thought I was just being paranoid but maybe there really is 'something' here!

I believe they do.A year and a half ago my dad was holding my 8 month old nephew. My nephew started leaning forward trying to peer at the floor beside the arm wrest on the loveseat they were sitting on. The kid burst out laughing while he stared.Then he tried to wiggle out of my dad's arms because he was now following whatever he was looking at as it went behind the loveseat.

We figure it was either our deceased dog(whose presence is still felt)or my mom's dad playing with the kid.

I had a similiar experience when I was around five, which I still recall. My parents used to rent a house off this lady and I had the front bedroom. My parents would leave my door open a little when I slept. They said after awhile I had started to talk to someone almost nightly. I would tell him(chocolate man) to go away and let me sleep.

Well this went on for quite awhile.My parents eventually mentioned this to the landlady about my nightly behavior.They told me she broke down in tears and had said she wanted to see me.My mom said she gave me rosery beads,kissed me and said we were part of her family now.She also went to church and prayed for me and her son.

The landlady told my parents that it was her deceased son's bedroom I slept in. She had found him passed away next to the closet that I recall always staring at.They also were of African American descent...hence me calling him "Chocolate man".So yes I believe kids do see.

Peace.

I believe they do. When observed they are so focused on whatever they are seeing. Sometimes it is hard to distract them.

my parents have 8-mm of my sister and i (we're twins) playing with something entirely invisible to my parents. we have never grown out of being able to see spirits, and sometimes can communicate with them (including one particular night in gettysburg, but that's another post). the chakras make sense, though i wonder if it just lessens the ability of some children. this also makes me bring up the question of invisible friends. babies cant say if they have them or not, but many a five year old has a friend or two. i didnt give up mine until i was eight, she was a very calming person. i still talk to the air if im alone and feeling stressed...
is it possible that invisible friends could be more than a hyperactive imagination?

Noone knows.

Sorry to burst everyone's bubbles but I was under the impression that babies can't focus on anything until they're several months old. Everything's new to them and they're just trying to cope with the new experience of being alive and in a world with so many visual and audial sensations. They're learning how to use their eyes... of course they're going to be looking around. The way I see it, you're going to see a ghost regardless of what age you are. I suppose kids are innocent and haven't been broken into a skeptical mentality, which would qualify them as being more sensitive, but kids also have rampant imaginations, and how do you explain the expeiences that some totally rock-solid skeptics have had and been unable to explain them?

RKD